Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
NEWS AND NOTES.

Detroit has now 200 miles of telephone
wire under ground.
A grandniece of Mozart is dependent
upon charity in Vienna.
It is said that 80, 900 farms have been
opened up in Kansas during the past year.
A "jubilee drink" is being advertised
in London A"iubilee coffin" has previously
made Its appearance.
A piece of ground on Broadway, New
York 25xl00 feet, has been sold for 1856, 20O-at
the rate of 81, 100000 per acre.
A San Francisco school teacher made
all his pupils strip tn the skin to find who had
stolen little girls breastpin.
The slave trade fiourishes openly on the
Madagascar coast. The slaves are captared In
the interior of the island by French agents.
A New York sea captain has just sued
his third wife. to obtain possession of "his Sec
ond wife's shawl nightgown, and SIS in casa"
The number of slaves in Brazil has
been reduced from 100000 in 1873 to 100000,
none of whom are under sixteen or over sixty
years of age.
The big bridge between New York and
Brooklyn is being treated to a new coat of
paint, and 1t Will take about twenty tons of
paint to COVERT
The interstate commerce law has not
checked the demand for new locomotives. The
railroat companies are ordering them faster
than the manufacturers can turn them out.
Two young ladies recently graduated
from the Medical College of Indiana have taken
out licenses to practice In Indianop is. One is
DIR. Mary a. Sprinkler and the other is DR.. Laura
E. Boyd.
Prince Leopold of Germany and Prince
Esterhazy of Austria are in this country and
will spend some time in seeing Its sights before
returning home. They are making tour of
the world.
Mrs. Isabella Beecner Hooker advo-
cot no nj Of ba
lice force, with a woman as superintendent
and the appointment of an equal number of
men and women in the ranks.
Russell Cox of Holderness, N. H, who
is ninety years o. age, is suffering from Sc
we're attack of whooping cough. His mother,
who died recently, had the whooping cough
when she was l0l years of age
A gentleman who, has been in the land
from whence the white elephants are sup
posed to come Gays that IN 400 years only
twenty two animals desc wing this distinction
have been captured. The first white ell plant
ever seen out ide of it, native land was eXhib-
ted 25J years ago in Holland.
Behring'S have been made in Indiana
which show that In many parts of the state nat
ural gas is Cbtainable in guam ity sufficient for
IN +nufacturing and domestic uses. 1t is alto
gether prob tble that the subteranean supply Is
as widely ditfused as the surface supply, which
is practically ineA haustible.
A Partisan has invented q system of
transmission by which 1t is possible to transmit
q dispatch in shoI thaDd along a single wire and
tn print it at the distant station in ste geographic
characters with rapidity exceeding that of
any Geographic apparatus now IN use. NJ. Cas-
sagnes is the name of this French Edison.
Near Dolores, Argentine Republic, there
was 'ecently shower of stones. A few mo-
ments after the plains were covered with the
DO les of geese, stOrks and other birds and ami
mails killed by the stones. one inhaDitant of
the place carried forty eight head of geese
home in the spac" of half an hour. Great loss
was sustained. Many animals were killed and
crops and trees were destroyed.
The st. James Gazette says: Concern
Ing the figures of the entire Jewish population
of the gil be there is a difference of plniOn
among the stats irians; but the "Hebrew An
nuaP' declares that France contains 800, 900;
Germany, 562 900, of whom 50 900 iuhabit AlsaCe
and Lorraine: Austria-Hungary, ! 644 900, of
whom 685,000 are in Galicia and $500 In Hun
gary; Italy. 10000; Netherlands, 81 coo; Rou
mania, 265, 600; Russia, 552 600 (Russian PO-
land, 1853 0o0); Turkey. 10000; Belgium, 1000;
Bulgaria, 10000; Switzer and 1000; Denmark.
1000; spain, 1900; Gibraltar, 1900; greece, 5000;
Servia, $500. Sweden, 3M0 In Asia there
are 100000 Of the race; Turkey in Asia has 1885,
900; % 900 a. in Pale tine, $1,000 are in Rus
1850 in Iudia snd 1000 in China. In Africa, 5000
Jews live in Egypt, 80 600 In unis, 30 900 in AL
geria, go 000 in Morocco, 5000 In Tripods and
90, 900 In Abvssinia. Anne lea contains 100000
among her citizens, and 90 600 more are distri-
bUted IN other sections of the transatlantic
Contin' Mt, while only II, COO are scattered
t rough OCeanCa. In short, the entire total of
the Hebrew race on the surface Of the globe is
at $780, CO..